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GELSENKIRCHEN Germany (Reuters) - German trade union IG Metall has reached an agreement with steel companies to raise the pay of 75,000 workers in northwestern Germany by 4 percent in two steps, ending a dispute that had prompted strikes last week. Under the agreement, which runs for 17 months and was struck early on Tuesday after more than 12 hours of talks, workers will receive a 2.3 percent increase from July and another 1.7 percent in May 2015, according to IG Metall. That is less than the 5 percent over 12 months the union had demanded but is well above the rate of inflation in Germany.

* IG Metall, GM set Oct. 31 deadline to conclude talks * Senior union official hopeful Bochum plant can be saved * GM could save $50-$64 mln from wage hike delay -Jefferies (Adds analyst, more comment) By Christiaan Hetzner and Jan Schwartz FRANKFURT, June 14 (Reuters) - General Motors and German labour union IG Metall have given themselves four months to hammer out a definitive plan to restructure the loss-making operations of Opel, the U.S. carmaker's European brand.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Hundreds of workers at German carmaker Daimler went on strike on Wednesday, engineering trade union IG Metall said, after wage talks affecting 70,000 employees in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia stalled last week. Daimler's Sprinter plant in Duesseldorf was hit by the walk out during the early morning shift as 800 workers downed tools, starting a wave of warning strikes planned for Germany's industrial heartland, IG Metall said. "Our patience is at an end, we want a 6.5 percent wage increase," Oliver Burkhard, a regional union leader, said in a statement.

Union ire: The world's largest trade union blasted German telecommunications company Mannesmann AG for giving its chief executive a $30 million severance package once his company merges with Britain's Vodafone AirTouch PLC. "This is irresponsible and incomprehensible to any employee," said Klaus Zwickel, head of IG Metall, which represents 3.4 million metal and electronics workers. Zwickel also sits on the board at Mannesmann. Zwickel added that other employee representatives on Mannesmann's supervisory board voted against giving Mannesmann chief executive Klaus Esser the package as well.

STUTTGART/HAMBURG (Reuters) - Almost 100,000 metal and electrical workers went on strike across Germany on Tuesday as they sought to put pressure on their employers to increase a pay offer, engineering union IG Metall said. The union is calling for wage hikes of up to 5.5 percent for some 3.7 million workers from May. It has so far rejected an offer from employers to increase wages by 2.3 percent from July following two months without a raise. Unions are pushing for inflation-beating wage hikes, confident politicians courting votes for a federal election due in September will back their demands.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen , Europe's largest carmaker, said it struck a pay deal with Germany's engineering union IG Metall for the bulk of its German workers, without disclosing the outcome. Details of the wage agreement will be published at a press conference at 5.00 a.m. EDT in Hanover, VW added. The union also declined to disclose the outcome of wage talks. VW's German staff representatives met company managers on Wednesday for a second round of in-house pay talks affecting about 100,000 workers in Europe's biggest economy.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of workers in Germany's engineering sector walked out on strike over a wage dispute on Wednesday, in what the powerful IG Metall trade union warned could be just the start of warning strikes that aim to drive forward wage negotiations. Around 30,000 workers in Germany's manufacturing sector downed tools until midday, affecting more than 100 companies, including German carmaker Daimler , after regional wage negotiations stalled in April. "Our patience is at an end, we want a 6.5 percent wage increase," Oliver Burkhard, a regional union leader, said in a statement.

FRANKFURT, Dec 11 (Reuters) - German union IG Metall is calling on politicians to save 200 blue collar jobs at Faurecia's car seat plant, the first major closure by an auto part supplier in Germany this year. "We've had good experience with that if you look at the example of Alstom in Salzgitter. By leaning on the company, politicians were able to prevent the planned job cuts," said a spokesman for IG Metall in the state Lower Saxony. In a rare move, all major political parties in the state joined up last year to fight for 1,400 workers whose jobs were reportedly at risk in Alstom's loss-making train manufacturing plant in Salzgitter.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - General Motors' German unit Opel is in talks with worker representatives to shorten working hours at its main plant in Ruesselsheim near Frankfurt, German daily Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz reported on Thursday, citing a company spokesman. "Due to the deteriorating market situation in Europe, management of Adam Opel AG is negotiating with the works council and (labor union) IG Metall over shortened working hours in Ruesselsheim," the paper cited the spokesman as saying.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG officials in Germany and the United States are performing a delicate dance with VW's influential German union as they wrestle with the possible representation of workers at the company's plant in Tennessee. Volkswagen is trying to introduce its model of a German-style works council, which would help set work rules for white- and blue-collar workers, at its only U.S. plant, in Chattanooga. While Volkswagen has works councils at all of its plants outside of China and Tennessee, it faces challenges in forming one in Chattanooga for various reasons, including a split within the company over whether to support the United Auto Workers union.